ArticleAmerican journal of medical genetics. Part B, Neuropsychiatric genetics : the official publication of the International Society of Psychiatric Genetics2013
ADCYAP1R1 genotype associates with post-traumatic stress symptoms in highly traumatized African-American females.
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- Meta-Analysis of Associations Between Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Genes and Risk of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.Journal of traumatic stress · 2020Pooled it
- Association of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder With rs2267735 in the ADCYAP1R1 Gene: A Meta-Analysis.Journal of traumatic stress · 2017Pooled it
- Early intervention following trauma may mitigate genetic risk for PTSD in civilians: a pilot prospective emergency department study.The Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2014Trial
- Lateral septal PACAP signaling regulates stress and anxiety reactions.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide receptor and its splice variants: Unique roles in affective and motivated behavior.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Review
- Chemogenetic modulation of PAC1-expressing neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) alters anxiety-related behaviors in male mice.Behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neuroendocrine Regulation and Neural Circuitry of Parenthood: Integrating Neuropeptides, Brain Receptors, and Maternal Behavior.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Regulation of behavioral responses to single prolonged stress in male and female rats: Role of PACAP.Neurobiology of stress · 2025Article
- PACAP associated with precise PTSD and fear extinction response in women.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- PACAP regulates neuroendocrine and behavioral stress responses via CRF-containing neurons of the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide plays a role in neuropsychiatric and substance use disorders: sex-specific perspective.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Circulating PACAP levels are associated with altered imaging measures of entorhinal cortex neurite density in posttraumatic stress disorder.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- The functional heterogeneity of PACAP: Stress, learning, and pathology.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2023Review
- Does age matter in genetics? The role of ADCYAP1R1 in sex-specific risk for posttraumatic stress disorder in trauma-exposed preadolescent children.Journal of psychiatric research · 2023Article
- Circulating PACAP levels are associated with increased amygdala-default mode network resting-state connectivity in posttraumatic stress disorder.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- A computational model for learning from repeated traumatic experiences under uncertainty.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- The Impacts of Sex Differences and Sex Hormones on Fear Extinction.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2023Article
- Anxiety and Depression: What Do We Know of Neuropeptides?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- PACAP-PAC1R modulates fear extinction via the ventromedial hypothalamus.Nature communications · 2022Article
- The pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide system as a sex-specific modulator of hippocampal response to threat stimuli.Neurobiology of stress · 2022Article
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Abstract
Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) and its receptor (PAC1) play a critical role in biological processes that mediate stress response and have been implicated in psychological outcome following trauma. Our previous work [Ressler et al. (2011); Nature 470:492-497] demonstrated that a variant, rs2267735, in the gene encoding PAC1 (ADCYAP1R1) is associated with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a primarily African-American cohort of highly traumatized females. We sought to extend and replicate our previous finding in a similarly trauma-exposed, replicate sample of 1,160 African-American adult male and female patients. Self-reported psychiatric measures were collected, and DNA was obtained for genetic analysis. Using linear regression models to test for association with PTSD symptom severity under an additive (allelic) model, we found a genotype × trauma interaction in females (P < 0.001), but not males (P > 0.1); however, there was no main effect of genotype as in our previous study. The observed interaction suggests a genetic association that increases with the degree of trauma exposure in females only. This interaction remained significant in females, but not males, after controlling for age (P < 0.001), income (P < 0.01), past substance abuse (P < 0.001), depression severity (P = 0.02), or child abuse (P < 0.0005), and all five combined (P = 0.01). No significant effects of genotype (or interactions) were found when modeling depression severity when controlling for comorbid PTSD symptom severity (P > 0.1), demonstrating the relative specificity of this variant for PTSD symptoms. A meta-analysis with the previously reported African-American samples revealed a strong association between PTSD symptom severity and the interaction between trauma and genotype in females (N = 1424, P < 0.0001).
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